Telehealth

The health system's new remote acute care unit aims to improve healthcare access and equity for eligible patients with daily clinical home visits and remote patient monitoring through its Medically Home technology.

And the telemedicine technology has increased the number of surgeries. It has enabled surgeons to feel comfortable performing more surgeries knowing they have available the clinical expertise to care for those patients in recovery in the ICU.

Citing compliance strains on providers and others, and the need to maintain patient care continuity, more than 200 virtual care stakeholders urged the agency to release its regulatory scheme for the prescribing of controlled substances through telehealth.

First responders from the community can connect with an on-call doctor from miles away via telehealth to receive instructions.

Northern Health has started digitising its various patient care programs through a single virtual platform.  

Artificial intelligence can enhance virtual nursing, quality and outcomes, and healthcare transformation, says Dr. Stephanie Lahr, president of Artisight, a healthcare AI technology company. She shows how.  

Karin Schifter-Maor discusses how remote patient monitoring can bring the Acute Hospital Care at Home program to more people, make the program affordable and use centralized patient data to improve health outcomes.

Also, Canberra Antenatal Care has digitised its patient pathway for expectant parents.